Exciting news! I am officially on the job market and looking for Spring 2025 positions.
Hi! My name is Alicia (uh-leesh-uh), and I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate and mixed-methods researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information, where I am advised by Dr. Tiffany Veinot. My research is at the intersection of health equity and digital mental health. I am interested in how technologies can assist in reducing mental health disparities for marginalized populations. I take a user-centered approach to analyzing digital health technologies and have experience assessing accessible UX practices. My working dissertation focuses on technologies' role in accessing mental health support for people of low socioeconomic status. Aside from my academic work, I have worked as an AI UX Student Researcher at Google DeepMind, where I led qualitative and participatory design studies to understand neurodivergent users’ needs while interacting with AI systems.
Formerly, I was a Project Manager at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research and a Youth Development and Community Health Facilitator through Peace Corps Peru. I enjoy knitting, jewelry making, and swimming. Y yo hablo español.
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Antonio, MG, Williamson, AK, Kameswaran, V, Beals, A, Ankrah, R, Goulet, S, Wang, I, Macias, G, James-Gist, J, Brown, LK, Davis, S., Pillai, S, Buis, L Dillahunt, T, Veinot, TC. Reducing Patients’ Cognitive Load for Telehealth Video Visits Through Student-Delivered Helping Sessions at a United States Federally Qualified Health Center: An Equity-Focused Mixed Methods Pilot Intervention Study. JMIR. https://doi.org/10.2196/42586 [Open Access]; [Accepted December 1, 2022].
Veinot, TC, Clarke, PJ, Romero, DM, Buis, LR, Dillahunt, T, Vydiswaran, V, Beals, A, Brown, L, Richards, O, Williamson, AK, Antonio, MG. 2022. Equitable Research PRAXIS: A Framework for Health Informatics Methods. Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 31(01), pp.307-316.
Spitzer, E, Kaitz, J, Fix, G, Harvey, K, Stadnick, N, Sullivan, J, Williamson, AK, Miller, C. Developing Relational Coordination: A Qualitative Study of Outpatient Mental Health Teams. Health Care Management Review; 2022.
Williamson, AK. Human Intermediaries As Core Infrastructure For Addressing Telehealth Access Inequities. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2022.
Nong, P, Williamson, AK, Anthony, D, Platt, J and Kardia, S. 2022. Discrimination, trust, and withholding information from providers: Implications for missing data and inequity. SSM-population health, 18, p.101092.
Williamson, AK, Brown, LK, Veinot, TC, Anthony, D. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Patient Perceptions of Collaborative Communication: Implications for Access to Health Information. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2021.
Williamson, AK, Barbarin, A, Campbell, B, Campbell, T, Zimmerman, M, Reischl, T, Veinot, TC. HOPE eIntervention: Uptake and engagement in an online sexual health intervention among African-American young adults. Journal of Medical Internet Research. (2021)
Miller CJ, Sullivan JL, Harvey KL, Williamson AK, & Stadnick N. Promoting high-functioning mental health treatment teams in the context of low staffing ratios. Health Care Management Review, in press
Williamson, AK, Davis, S, Goulet, S, Kameswaran, V, Ankrah, E, Dillahunt, T, Buis, L, Veinot, T. Intermediary practices for low-income telehealth users. Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) 2020.
Williamson, AK, Riendeau, RP, Stolzmann, K, Silverman, AF, Kim, B, Miller, CJ, Connolly, SL, Pitcock, J, Bauer, MS. An Exploratory Analysis of Self-Reported Protective Factors against Self-Harm in an Enrolled Veteran General Mental Health Population. Military Medicine. (2019).
